Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D – Calif.) cited her oath to “protect and defend” the U.S. Constitution as the reason Congress should enact harsher gun control measures.

In a press release[2] marking the one-year anniversary of the Aurora, Colorado shootings, the former Speaker of the House said: “In Congress, there can be no more fitting memorial to the lives lost in Aurora, in Newtown, and across the country than a concerted effort to enact commonsense gun safety legislation.

“We must uphold our oath to ‘protect and defend’ the constitution and all Americans by expanding background checks and keeping dangerous firearms out of the wrong hands.”

[3] Pelosi: More Gun Control Needed Because ‘We Took an Oath to Protect and Defend’: http://www.prisonplanet.com/pelosi-more-gun-control-needed-because-%e2%80%98we-took-an-oath-to-protect-and-defend%e2%80%99.html